Jul 2026· Ethics, Politics & Society· Vol 9· 0 citations
Abstract
Gosseries argues that we have moral duties to future people, since we should not discriminate against people based on when they live—that all people, at all times, have an equal right to the basic requirements of a good life. I argue that in making this claim Gosseries is committed to the real existence of these future people, and in making this commitment he is also committed to a metaphysical view where the future is fixed and unchanging. This introduces a problem that Gosseries does not address: that a fixed future makes any kind of moral deliberation pointless.
In this article, it is argued that action from duty has special moral worth on Kant's account because (i) it is an instance of good willing, and (ii) the good will is the only unconditional good. This is used to argue, contrary to various commentators, that Kant's doctrine of moral worth is central, not only to Kantian...
Samuel Kahn· Philosophical Investigation· 0 citations
In this reply to critics, I begin by addressing concerns about the ability of future rights to justify current duties. I then move to the issue of whether a collectivist approach can help us facing the difficulties that we encounter when we want to hold some people responsible today for what their ancestors did. I then...
Axel Gosseries· Ethics, Politics & Socie...· 0 citations
There has been a recent surge of interest in normative internalism, according to which what you ought to do depends on your beliefs about morality. This view has potentially wide-reaching implications for practical action, policy choice, and societal norms. The view is motivated by certain compelling examples, but in...
Modernity has ushered in an increasing detachment from life; a divorce of sorts is taking place between the individual and the cultural context. Given certain thoughts and feelings, words fail us. It seems that we fail to communicate, to understand, to carve significance beyond the text. I write this manuscript as a fe...
In the paper I argue that social discounting of the future fails, in more general terms, because by focusing on existence or time distance, neglects the fact that future generations are participants in the same chain of human succession. Making use of Gosseries’ discussion in the book What is Intergenerational Justice?...
Kostas Koukouzelis· Ethics, Politics & Socie...· 0 citations
Recently, Hasok Chang has argued that we should adopt a pragmatic account of truth on which truth is constituted by practical success. Central to his argument is the claim that truth in this sense can be pursued and that other senses of truth can’t be. In this paper, I present a dilemma for Chang’s view. Either pract...
Corey Dethier· Philosophia Scientiæ· 0 citations
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